Della Vigna, Stefano; Heining, Jörg; Schmieder, Johannes; … - 2020
-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We … provide three key facts: 1) search effort is flat early on in the UI spell, 2) search effort exhibits an increase up to UI …